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The PowerPoint Content Publishing Team creates content for the PowerPoint section of the Office Online site at Microsoft.com – they are a group of six - from left to right in the small picture, they are Shellie Tucker, Eric Schmidt, Joy Miller, Mary Sobczyk, Jen Zamora, and Eric Jensen. In this exclusive Indezine interview, they discuss how they work as a team, and what factors influence the creation of new content for the PowerPoint part of the Office Online site.
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Nancy
Duarte has been a Principal of Duarte
Design since1990. Her firm is in the heart of the Silicon
Valley and the client list is loaded
with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion
for business communications that
are clear, meaningful and attractive has opened doors for her in
a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications.
In this interview, Nancy discusses her much awaited book slide:ology that
was released this month.
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Wendy
Russell is the About.com
Guide to Presentation
Software -- in her role as a software consultant and teacher,
Wendy gives frequent presentations, coaching and offering advice
to students, educators and business clientele on how to make the
most of presentation software. In this interview, Wendy discusses
her role as a guide at About.com, talks about PowerPoint 2007,
and shares some trivia.
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Ross
Boucher along with Tom Robinson and
Francisco Tolmasky comprise the team
at 280North, a company based in Cupertino,
United States that creates the 280Slides
online presentation program. In this
interview, Ross discusses how 280Slides
evolved, the interface, input and
output formats supported, and the
response to the program.
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Christian
Lund-Sørensen is co-owner and serves as Managing
Director at SkabelonDesign. He is responsible for all international
activities in the company and also focus on strategic development
of the company. In this interview, Christian discusses the PresentationEngine
product, and how it can make life easier for PowerPoint designers.
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Christina Deatherage serves as
Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ShowLogicTM for Catevo.
Prior to joining The Catevo Group, she worked for IBM/Lenovo where
she held various marketing, sales and strategy positions. In this interview, she discusses Catevo's new ShowLogic presentation platform.
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Ric
Bretschneider is Senior Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft
and he celebrates fifteen years as
a Microsoft veteran, having joined
the company in 1993 to work on PowerPoint
for Windows and the Macintosh. Over
the years, he's contributed to the
design and direction of the application,
and been awarded three PowerPoint
related patents. In this interview,
Ric discusses his fifteen years,
his involvement with PowerPoint,
the MVPs, his podcasts, and how PowerPoint
was named.
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Jim
Endicott is a nationally-recognized consultant,
designer, speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging,
design and delivery. In this interview, Jim discusses the implications
of changes in this decade, the influence of technology, the sophistication
of the marketplace, and the utilization of potential.
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Katherine Murray is
the author of more than 50 books on technology and writes articles
for various Microsoft sites. She also writes and edits the Microsoft
Mindshare newsletter and contributes articles to CNET's TechRepublic.
In addition to books and articles, Katherine publishes BlogOffice,
a blog sharing tips and ideas related to various versions of Microsoft
Office.
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James Gordon has
been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 2000 and
can be found in the Microsoft Macintosh newsgroups for Excel, PowerPoint
and Word. PowerPoint users will recognize Jim as the creator of
InsertPicture add-in for Macintosh. At SUNY University at Buffalo, Jim works
helping faculty, staff and instructors with a wide array of technologies
for higher education.
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Johnson Yang is General
Manager at NewSoft
America Inc., a company engaged in creating imaging, multimedia
and Internet-related software.techniques, as
well as wireless projection transmitting hardware. Recently,
NewSoft unveiled the WMS 100 and WMS 200 wireless projection
transmitting services that let you connect your laptop to a
projector without wires.
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